Quotes About Motivation

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the numbers, in the right orders, so you can have anything you want.

As Pat Riley, the basketball coach, said, Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.

Perhaps the most important insight of all with regard to success is that to achieve greatly, you must become a different person. It is not the material things you accomplish or acquire that matter so much as it is the quality of the person you must become to accomplish well above the average. The development of self-discipline is the high road that makes everything possible for you.

When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.

You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long.

Success in life is in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.

The most important success principle of all was stated by Elbert Hubbard, one of the most prolific writers in American history, at the beginning of the twentieth century. He said, 'Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.

There are 999 other success principles that I have found in my reading and experience, but without self-discipline, none of them work. With self-discipline, they all work.

You perform as well as you believe yourself capable of performing. You are as effective as you believe yourself to be in whatever you do. You can never be better or different on the outside than you believe yourself to be on the inside.

When everything is laid out neatly and in sequence, you will feel much more like getting on with the job.

Your problem is to bridge the gap between where you are now and the goals you intend to reach. EARL NIGHTINGALE

You can't hit a target you can't see. You can't accomplish wonderful things with your life if you have no idea of what they are. You must first become absolutely clear about what you want if you are serious about unlocking the extraordinary power that lies within you. Every

the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

You can never rise any higher than your expectations of yourself. Since they are completely under your control, be sure that your expectations are consistent with what you want to see happen. Always expect the best of yourself.

As you begin to see yourself and think about yourself as more competent and confident, your behavior becomes more focused and effective

The best work of all is when you are achieving your own goals by helping others to achieve theirs.

you. Viktor Frankl, the founder of Logotherapy, wrote that the greatest need of human beings is for a sense of meaning and purpose in life, for a goal to work toward.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason." —MARK TWAIN

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue. These

Help yourself warm up and prepare mentally by repeating, "I feel happy! I feel healthy! I feel terrific!" It is not possible for you to talk positively to yourself, using words like this, without immediately feeling happier and more confident.

Each act of self-discipline strengthens every other act of self-discipline. Every act of persistence strengthens every other act of persistence. When you discipline yourself to persist, over and over, you like and respect yourself more and more. You become stronger and more confident. Eventually, you become unstoppable.